Socks

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 88485

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd"
<CoyotesChild at c...> wrote:
> Iggy de-cloaking for a minute:
> 
> I have an interesting question here... What's JKR's fixation with >
socks?
(snip)
> Dumbledore claims to see them in the mirror.

I don't know why socks appear so often in the story, but there are
several theories about those particular socks. IMHO all the
*interesting* theories assume that DD told the truth that he really
did see himself holding socks when he looked in the Mirror of Erised,
but didn't tell the most important truth about WHY he saw that.

One is that DD yearns to free all the House Elves (either out of the
same idealism as Hermione or because a House Elf army could defeat
Voldemort so thoroughly) and he sees himself holding many socks and
handing them out to House Elves.

Another is that DD himself *is* a House Elf, which is why he has such
powerful and unusual magical ability, and he sees himself being given
socks and thus freedom. One version goes on to explain that he is
Nicolas Flamel's House Elf and Flamel disguised him as a human and
ordered him to defend the wizarding world against Voldemort...

Me, I believe that he saw himself holding socks, but they weren't just
any socks: they were a brand-new pair of the hideously ugly and not
particularly comfortable hand-made socks that his late beloved wife
(or mother, or boyfriend) always knitted for him for Christmas every
year, and what he really wishes is that the beloved person was still
alive and with him.